A new report details how getting involved can make an impact — and how community-based strategies can significantly reduce ...

Young climate activists from Chicago called on Gov. JB Pritzker to enact legislation that would make the fossil fuel industry ...

Climate conference brings hundreds of state and local leaders to Chicago to speak about climate policy, clean energy and environmentally friendly infrastructure.

The City of Chicago is in the sustainability spotlight this week, as the host of the Aspen Ideas: Climate Summit. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The conference is a major ...

Other than climate-change deniers, no one is saying such things won’t happen eventually. Chicago and the entire country indisputably are getting warmer, especially over the past 20 years.

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Chicago feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on Climate ...

The figures are in and 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded for Chicago, for the U.S., and across the globe. The eight warmest years for the U.S. have all occurred since 2012. It turns out more ...

Humanity is at an inflection point. I think we all agree that a livable climate, clean air, clean and accessible water, and thriving and biodiverse ecosystems are priceless. All too often, however ...

But Chicago has a problem, one that’s almost certainly caused by the forces that climate change has released. A balance has long existed between the city’s two great bodies of water, Lake ...

It wasn’t the deadliest domestic tragedy prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as Rep. Sean Casten asserted in arguing for more climate change action.

How climate change has affected each state | While these impacts are weather-related — for example, heat waves, droughts, or storms — individual weather events cannot be attributed to climate ...

ABC 7, Chicago's No. 1 station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the impact of climate change and significant weather events on our environment.